Moderates (Scotland)

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The Moderates were a municipal political organisation operating in Scotland in the early 20th century. The group was based on tacit anti-Labour co-operation between local

Labour to gain control of the council for the first time.[1]

The Moderates in Glasgow would later become the

Progressives
in 1936, following the establishment of the Edinburgh Progressive party in 1928. Whilst the terms Progressive and Moderate grew increasingly interchangeable, Even as late as 1969 various Councillors were contesting local elections on a moderate - as opposed to Progressive - platform.

See also

  • Progressives

References

  1. ^ Smyth, James. J. "Resisting Labour: Unionists, Liberals, and Moderates in Glasgow between the Wars" (PDF). The Historical Journal. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 4 April 2015.